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LDT Oversight May Fall to Congress, CLIA
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 7 – May 12, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: After a federal court struck down the FDA’s final rule on laboratory developed tests, attention has shifted to Congress and CLIA as likely paths forward for oversight. A lack of bipartisan momentum makes new legislation unlikely in the near term. Experts sug…
May 12, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 7 – May 12, 2025 Issue
Yet another clinical laboratory has sold off part of its services to a national commercial lab. Labcorp announced on April 21 that it had finalized its acquisition of North Mississippi Health Services’ (NMHS) ambulatory outreach laboratory business. A…
Enjoy the LDT Court Victory, Yet Remain Vigilant
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025 Issue
VICTORY IN COURT! FOR AN INDU…
In the Past, Labs Used Courts to Thwart Feds
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: A federal judge’s recent decision to vacate the FDA’s final rule on laboratory developed tests harkens back to a 2008 case where clinical labs stopped a CMS competitive bidding project. In the earlier case, legal risks led the government to back down. The …
Trump Signs Executive Order on Price Transparency
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 5 – March 31, 2025 Issue
ON FEBRUARY 25, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER targeted at driving price transparency requirements for hospitals and insurers. The order aims to strictly enforce a previous rule, signed during his first term, intended to provide patients with cl…
Proposed Clinical Laboratory Price Transparency Bill
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
IN DECEMBER, THE CLINICAL LABORATORY PRICE TRANSPARENCY ACT OF 2023 was referred to the U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health for final approval. The bill requires labs to disclose information regarding pricing before administering services. The goal is to ensure patients better understand…
Federal Lawsuit Favors Lab Accused of AKS Violations
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 2 – January 27, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This whistleblower lawsuit initially charged a clinical lab with, among other things, violating the Anti-Kickback Statute and EKRA. After the judge ruled to exclude the AKS and EKRA claims, the whistleblower refiled the case and included claims the lab paid commissions for th…
January 27, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 2 – January 27, 2025 Issue
On Jan. 16, 2025, Paul Mango died at the age of 65. With his passing, the profession of laboratory medicine lost an ally and a friend. In the mid-1990s, while at the Institute for Transfusion Medicine in Pittsburgh, Mango convinced the CEOs of 40 hospitals to collaborate and create t…
Pathology Compensation in Different Settings, including Hospitals
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 1 – January 6, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This second installment on the series about boosting pathologist compensation uses data collected during a survey of 1,400 pathologists in 230 pathology practices by the Panel of National Pathology Leaders (PNPL). Two experienced pathology consultants identify the most effect…
Lab Briefs: Dec. 16, 2024
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 17 – December 16, 2024 Issue
55,000 Members of Class Action Case Involving Labcorp…
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